As much as the world might like it to, intimate partner violence does not fit neatly into the boxes of ‘male perpetrator’ and ‘female victim’. And it never has. Even the perpetrator/victim binary is not right, with many of those living in violent relationships being either, neither or both of those things, on any given day. Yes, it’s murky, difficult to disentangle, and wildly unpopular to do so. However - One thing which is for sure, is that many people have gotten rich by painting cartoonish, outdated, and exclusionary pictures of partner violence. Frameworks and intervention models that borderline on conspiracy, hysteria, fairytale, and delusion; forsaken by science, to leave countless violent women without help, and many millions of male victims out in the cold. And whilst these men who flee violence, sleep in cars, or in tents in local parks, those who betrayed them, fat with conceit, fill their pockets and inflate their egos, with neither care nor interest, for their failings. Huckstering snake oil salesmen take their grifts to schools and family courts alike, as they preach and proselytize upon the pulpit of ideological propaganda, leaving the rest of us none-the-wiser. So, behind the fiction and hyperbole, and beyond the expensive, meaningless workshops – what is the truth to partner violence, and the ugly data within? Well, let’s take a look… ~ Source https://tinyurl.com/2n4nhvnz
2025-09-12










